Whether you’re viewing this Blog in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or the various versions of Internet Explorer there generally are a couple tips under the hood which you are not aware of. Many of these tips are vastly going to increase your productivity when browsing the internet. These browser tips range from increasing the font size to even recovering old tabs. After you’re done reading this you will be a certified multitasking guru. To get you started, try using CTRL+F to find a tip within this article. Read the rest of this entry »

Pete’s Tire Barn of Orange, MA has just released a new addition to their website; Pete’s Tire Barn Online Store.  This eCommerce store is a major addition to the Pete’s Tire Barn network of stores.  Central Mass Web Design partnered with Pete’s Tire Barn to develop and deploy this eCommerce system.  Pete’s will be offering many major brands and types of specialty tires that cover all types of vehicles, including ATV’s, Lawnmowers, Tractors, Airport Equipment Vehicles, and many, many more.  If you are in need of a specialty tire for your vehicle, please check out Pete’s Tire Barn. Read the rest of this entry »

When you set out to maintain your website, it’s very important for you to look through the eyes of your customer and understand what they see.  Sometimes it is as simple as the customer wanting to buy a clock, but you are trying to tell them how to build the clock.

Jacob Nielsen, is a profound web design and website maintenance expert.  He has numerous patents in regards to web based applications, services and ideas and is well known in our industry.  Occasionally, he will issue a Top 10 List for Web Design or Website Maintenance Mistakes. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Easter!  I hope you all have a wonderful day.  I also hope that when you created those great easter basket’s for your kids that you added in a Hershey bar.

Hershey bars have had new packaging since January. Hitting the shelves in January, every standard and king-size Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar and Milk Chocolate Bar with Almonds contains Read the rest of this entry »

SCORE has just released an upgrade to their national website, www.score.org.  This upgrade utilizes the Constant Contact API allowing the website visitor to remain on the score website at all times.  Central Mass Web Design is pleased that Read the rest of this entry »

Website Maintenance and management is key to getting more traffic (natural traffic) to your website and it’s crucial to making your website work for you.  Maintaining your site is not difficult, but it’s likely that you might not have the time to do the work.  The main reason for the lack of time is simple…it’s because you are working on your business.  Something to consider Read the rest of this entry »

There is an upcoming networking event happening in Fitchburg Massachusetts, on April 1, 2010.  This event is free to attend and is being sponsored by the Fitchburg Business Networking Group.  To attend, simply register for free online, so that leadership can get a proper head count.

Speed Networking is Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, the Mix10 Developers Conference was held in Las Vegas.  Numerous speakers presented, including Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager of Microsoft’s IE Group.  He said numerous things, which were recapped in Larry Barrett’s article on HTML Goodies.  Take a read at Larry’s article, it’s interesting, and thought provoking.

Internet Explorer 9 has a preview out there, you can find it here: Internet Explorer 9

I want to thank Larry for writing this article…but honestly…Does anyone want to see another version of IE?  As a web developer, and the owner of a website development company in the Boston Mass area, I am constantly frustrated by Read the rest of this entry »